Alexandra convinces her brothers that they must mortgage their farm to buy more land, even though many of their neighbors are moving away due to drought and hard conditions of the soil. John Bergson, Alexandra’s father, passes away shortly afterwards, leaving the farm in Alexandra’s hands, knowing that she is more familiar with the land than her brothers, Lou and Oscar.
Carl fetches the kitten and sends Emil into the store to warm up, and when Alexandra follows him in, she finds Emil playing with Marie Tovesky, a pretty little Bohemian girl from Omaha. When his sister, Alexandra, returns from a doctor’s visit, Emil runs up to her, and she enlists the help of their neighbor, Carl Linstrum.
PLACE: Kearney Public Library, 2020 First Ave.ĬONTACT: Nathan Tye, assistant history professor, a windy January day in Hanover, Nebraska, a 5-year-old Swede boy sits on the sidewalk, crying for his kitten that has run up the pole.
His research on Cather and her connections to Kearney was published in the fall 2022 edition of Willa Cather Review. PRESENTER: Nathan Tye is an assistant history professor at UNK, where he specializes in Nebraska history, the history of the American West and Midwest, labor history, gender and sexuality history and digital and public history. Coinciding with Cather’s and Kearney’s 150th birthday celebrations, this talk will illuminate the lives of Cather’s friends and family in Kearney as well as her two visits to the community in the 1920s and 1930s. Closely identified with Red Cloud and Lincoln, Cather also had deep connections to Kearney residents. TOPIC: Known to readers for her reimaginings of Red Cloud, Nebraska, in classics like “My Ántonia” and “O Pioneers!,” Willa Cather is one of Nebraska’s most beloved authors.
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